Beau Jordan celebrates as Mississippi State takes on LSU in the NCAA Super Regional at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA.- Saturday, June 10, 2017.

BATON ROUGE — All on a LSU Friday.

-Senior left fielder Beau Jordan graduated with a degree in General Business and a minor in Sports Studies by day at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

-And by night across Nicholson Drive at Alex Box Stadium, he hit a grand slam home run in the eighth inning to give the Tigers a come-from-behind, dramatic, memory making, 7-5 victory over Alabama in front of about 7,000 that saw LSU down by 5-1 entering the eighth.

"I was sweating, but I wasn't nervous," Jordan said, but that was about his walk to receive his diploma.

"It's breathtaking to come through like that when your teammates need you," Jordan said about his run around the bases. "It's such a great feeling to give your team the edge in a close game like this and come up big in a clutch situation."

Jordan's head gear adjusted on both rights of passage – first with the tassel flip at graduation and then with his helmet.

"It almost came off my head around first base," he said. "I was so excited. Then by the time I got to home plate, I blacked out."

Too bad he has already graduated. "How I Hit a Grand Slam to Beat Alabama" would have been a great Sports Studies thesis.

"Yeah, I could get extra credit," he said.

There's always graduate school or perhaps a career as an astronaut.

"It feels like you're levitating on top of the earth," Jordan said when asked what hitting a game winning grand slam was like. "I kind of blacked out. It was a pretty cool moment. It's got to be at the top."

And potentially so many more games to play beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday on the SEC Network when the Tigers (30-20, 13-12 Southeastern Conference) and Tide (25-26, 6-19 SEC) meet in game two. Game three follows at 2 p.m. Sunday with the regular season finale series at Auburn Thursday through Saturday before the SEC Tournament – and NCAA postseason if LSU keeps winning.

"You love to see that for a guy like Beau," said Nick Coomes, whose bases-loaded, one-out, pinch-hit RBI single scored LSU's first run in the eighth to cut Alabama's lead to 5-2. "He's a senior. He graduated today. He hits a grand slam to win a big game for us. That's how memories are made."

LSU nearly found itself with two outs and nobody on and down 5-1 in the eighth as Daniel Cabrera led off with a ground out to shortstop, but Zach Watson reached on his grounder to shortstop when Jett Manning threw wildly to first for an error. Reliever Deacon Medders then walked Hunter Feduccia and Jake Slaughter to load the bases for Coomes, who pinch hit for Hal Hughes.

After Coomes' RBI single, Brandt Broussard coaxed a walk out of Medders with the bases loaded for an RBI, cutting the Tide's lead to 5-3 and keeping them loaded for Jordan. Sam Gardner then replaced Medders on the mound to face Jordan.

A fourth-year Tiger from Barbe High in Lake Charles, Jordan hit his eighth home run of the season on a two-ball, two-strike pitch over the left field wall. And LSU was up 7-5.

"I finally got a fastball over the middle of the plate," he said. "I swung at two bad pitches after the count was 2-0. I could've walked. And I could just feel Coach (Paul Mainieri) saying, 'C'mon, don't swing at those.' Finally got the good pitch and was able to put a good swing on it."

The rest is a silent blur.

"Honestly, you don't really hear anything," Jordan said. "It becomes deafening. When I got back to the dugout, I just had to take a moment and breathe because I was yelling the whole time. It was a great moment."

Newly crowned closer Todd Peterson pitched the ninth and retired the side in order for his third save of the season. LSU No. 4 reliever John Kodros (1-1) picked up the win with two pitches of relief in the eighth. Medders (0-4) took the loss.

"What a moment for the kid," Mainieri said of Jordan, who also hit a grand slam at Missouri two years ago. "He wasn't holding back. I was just hoping he'd put something in play."

The Tide took a 2-0 lead in the second inning off LSU starter Zack Hess and added two more in the third. Manning delivered a one-out, two-run single up the middle for the second inning lead after Hess allowed a lead-off single to Sam Praytor and a double to John Trousdale around a fly out by Keith Holcombe.

After Manning's RBIs, Hess struck out eighth and ninth hitters Matt Malkin and Walker McCleney to get out of the second inning.

Hess opened the third by hitting Cobie Vance, then walked Joe Breaux. After Chandler Avant sacrifice bunted the runners over, Hess hit Praytor to load the bases. Then Holcombe drove in two with a single up the middle for the 4-0 bulge. Hess got two fly outs around a walk to exit the inning.

LSU scored an unearned run int the third as Antoine Duplantis reached when Holcombe dropped Duplantis' fly ball in left. After Austin Bain flew out to center, Cabrera's double to center scored Duplantis.

The Tigers threatened to get closer in the fourth as they had runners on the corners with nobody out after a Slaughter double and an infield single by Hal Hughes. But Brandt Broussard bounced into a rare 5-4-2 double play that nailed Slaughter at the plate. Jordan flew out to center to end the inning with LSU still down 4-1.

"I mean, I haven't seen that double play – third to second to home – since probably about 1978 when I was watching the New York Yankees on television with Graig Nettles to Willie Randolph to Thurman Munson. But it was a tremendous play. Broussard hit that ball as hard as he could, and it was right at the third baseman. Slaughter did everything he could do. You start to think you're snake-bit for the night, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere, here we go."

Alabama made it 5-1 in the eighth when Trousdale doubled off LSU reliever Devin Fontenot, who then gave up a RBI single to Manning.

"We've got to come out tomorrow and bring it," Jordan said. "We kind of coasted tonight. We've got our backs to the wall. But every year I've been here, late in the season we hit our potential. We're starting to click."

Everything clicked right for Beau Jordan on Friday, May 11, 2018.

"In both situations you work your whole career for that moment," Jordan said of graduation and his last home regular season weekend as a Tiger. "It feels pretty cool."

LSU pitcher Zack Hess (38) reacts after striking out the last batter in the team’s NCAA college baseball tournament super regional game against Mississippi State in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, June 10, 2017. LSU won 4-3. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)